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Own Sandbox
A Programme of Study
CODING · AGES 10–13 · 8 WEEKS

AI CREATOR

Train it. Prompt it. Build with it. Understand what it can’t do.

Your child will leave having trained their own image model, built a chatbot app with rules they wrote, and presented it at Show Day — able to explain, in their own words, what an AI knows, what it guesses, and how to catch it when it’s wrong.

AI ProjectMobile AppSandbox StudioCohort WorkspacePlayable GameDemo DayCertificate
Duration2 months (8 weeks)
Hours32 hours total
Schedule1 hr/day Mon–Thu
Class sizeMax 10 students
Projects8 shipped
Investment29,500
Teachable MachineScratchThunkableSandbox AICanva
PHASE 1

HOW AI LEARNS

Weeks 1–2
  1. WK 1
    Teach the Computer to See
    Train an image model on rock, paper, scissors with the webcam. Predict what will fool it — bad light, a new hand — then test and explain why.
    Teachable Machine
  2. WK 2
    Rock Paper Scissors vs AI
    Load the trained model into Scratch. The computer sees your hand and plays back. Score, rounds, a losing streak that makes it retrain.
    Scratch + ML
PHASE 2

WORDS + PICTURES

Weeks 3–4
  1. WK 3
    Prompt Lab
    One idea, five prompts. Change one word at a time and record what moves. Leave with a written prompt recipe that works — and one that never does.
    Sandbox AI
  2. WK 4
    Story Machine
    Pick a hero, a mood and a place with buttons you coded; the AI writes the page. Your logic decides the story, the model only fills in the prose.
    Scratch + Sandbox AI
PHASE 3

BUILD WITH AI

Weeks 5–6
  1. WK 5
    Topic Expert Chatbot
    A phone app that answers questions on one topic they choose — cricket, dinosaurs, space. They write the rules: what it answers, what it politely refuses.
    Thunkable + Sandbox AI
  2. WK 6
    Spot the Fake
    Real photo or generated? True fact or confident guess? Build a quiz app from examples they collected — and learn the tells.
    Thunkable
PHASE 4

POLISH + SHOW DAY

Weeks 7–8
  1. WK 7
    My AI Project
    Pick the project they’re proudest of. Add one feature, fix every bug, write the one-minute explanation of what the AI does — and doesn’t — know.
    Any
  2. WK 8
    AI SHOW DAY
    Demo to parents and judges. The question every judge asks: “How would you tell if it’s wrong?” Certificates.
    All